Talking to a few in the know what will happen after the sale of Telstra and its workforce, the word around Sydney is that there are three major companies who were bidding for the tenders and because of the vast number of employees that Telstra has, its going to be a massacre if you still want to work there. Now this is fact, because of John Howard's Industrial Relations changes this will give the companies tendering for the Telstra bid ammunition on winning the tender and because they know there is a vast amount of employees and only 50% or less of them will ever be employed, they will be able to dictate the wage. This could not have come at a worse time for you guys because I can tell you this, the figure is around $10,000-15,000 a year less and the unions know about it, but again because of the vast amount of unemployed ex-Telstra employees, it will be cut throat to get the job and people will accept and sign these contracts for 15K less a year. At the end of the day, a company tendering for these contracts has to correctly calculate its workforce and the wages it is prepared to pay for each worker. By the way, I am talking about tech's here too, start queuing up at Centrelink!!!